St Peter the Apostle, South Elmham
St Peter the Apostle, South Elmham
St Peter’s is a Grade II* parish church in South Elmham St Peter, one of the Saints of north Suffolk. The fabric is twelfth- and fourteenth-century: nave, chancel, south porch and west tower in rubble flint with stone dressings.
- Location
- South Elmham, Suffolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Suffolk
- City / town
- South Elmham
- Address
- South Elmham, Suffolk, NR35 1NG
- Postcode
- NR35 1NG
- Built
- 12th and 14th centuries
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter the Apostle
- Diocese
- St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Parish
- St Peter, South Elmham
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Norman and Decorated
- Materials
- Rubble flint to nave and chancel with stone dressings; slate roofs; tower of rubble flint mixed with stone and red brick
- Grid reference
- TM 335 848
- Opening hours
- Open every day, please visit within daylight hours. There are two shallow steps to enter, however a ramp is available upon request. Limited parking available on the lane outside the church.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists a small four-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, flint-and-stone chequerwork and a battlemented panelled parapet. Nave windows are fourteenth- and fifteenth-century; the chancel has Y-tracery to the south and a three-light east window with intersecting tracery. The south doorway is a plain Norman opening with one order of shafts and cushion capitals. The fourteenth-century chancel arch has a continuous outer moulding decorated with fleurons and heads. The fifteenth-century font has seated lions around the shaft and a bowl of alternating blank shields and Tudor roses. A piscina survives beside the altar.
A north chapel of Our Lady, burial place of John Tasburgh (d. 1473) and Margery Tasburgh (d. 1485), was probably demolished in 1834–35; only marks of its entrance remain. The church is in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, in one of the smallest parishes in East Anglia.